{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Hotel Hello | type = Album | artist = Gary Burton & Steve Swallow | cover = Gary_Burton_Hotel_Hello.jpg | alt = | released = 1975 | recorded = {{Start and end date|1974|05|13|1974|05|14}} | studio = Aengus Studio<br>Fayville, Massachusetts | venue = | genre = Jazz | length = 36:00 | label = ECM 1055 ST | producer = Manfred Eicher | chronology = Gary Burton | prev_title = Seven Songs For Quartet And Chamber Orchestra | prev_year = 1974 | next_title = Ring | next_year = 1974 }} '''''Hotel Hello''''' is an album by vibraphonist Gary Burton and bassist Steve Swallow recorded over two days in May 1974 and released on ECM the following year.
==Reception== {{Music ratings | rev1 = AllMusic | rev1Score = {{Rating|2.5|5}}<ref name="allmusic">{{cite web |url= http://www.allmusic.com/album/r136149 |title=Hotel Hello - Gary Burton | AllMusic |first=Scott |last=Yanow |work=allmusic.com |year=2011 |accessdate=3 July 2011}}</ref> |rev3 = ''The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide'' | rev3Score = {{rating|3|5}}<ref name=RSJRG>{{Cite book |editor-last=Swenson |editor-first=J. | author-link = | year = 1985 | title = The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide | publisher = Random House/Rolling Stone | location = USA | isbn = 0-394-72643-X | pages = 34 }}</ref> |rev2 = ''The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings'' |rev2score = {{Rating|4|4}}<ref name="Penguin"/> }} ''The Penguin Guide to Jazz'' listed the album as part of its suggested "core collection" and described it as "by far the most impressive of Burton's two-handers and an ideal opportunity to examine the vibist in close-ups." They concluded by calling it "one of the high-points of ECM's distinguished catalogue."<ref name="Penguin">{{cite book |last1=Cook |first1=Richard |authorlink1=Richard Cook (journalist) |last2=Morton |first2=Brian |authorlink2=Brian Morton (Scottish writer) |title=The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings |year=2008 |edition=9th |publisher=Penguin |isbn=978-0-141-03401-0 |page=204}}</ref>
In a review for AllMusic, Scott Yanow wrote: "the music is introverted, quiet, and occasionally swinging, but mostly floating... Thoughtful background music with no real surprises or excitement."<ref name="allmusic" />
Writing for ECM blog ''Between Sound and Space'', Tyran Grillo called the album a "long-forgotten jewel," and commented: "''Hotel Hello'' is a unique entry in the Burton catalogue, for it is the only one that feels as if it were painted in black and white. What it lacks in vibrancy... of color, it makes up for, if not surpasses, in its visceral sentiment.... This is a consistently solid effort and arousing in its many changes."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://ecmreviews.com/2010/12/17/hotel-hello |title=Gary Burton/Steve Swallow: Hotel Hello |last=Grillo |first=Tyran |website=Between Sound and Space |date=December 17, 2010 |access-date=February 23, 2022}}</ref>
==Track listing== {{Track listing | all_writing = Steve Swallow except as noted | headline = Side I | title1 = Chelsea Bells (for Hern) | length1 = 4:25 | title2 = Hotel Overture + Vamp | length2 = 3:39 | title3 = Hotel Hello | length3 = 5:24 | title4 = Inside In | length4 = 2:43 | writer4 = Mike Gibbs | title5 = Domino Biscuit | length5 = 1:56 }}{{Track listing | headline = Side II | title1 = Vashkar | length1 = 5:58 | writer1 = Carla Bley | title2 = Sweet Henry | length2 = 4:02 | writer2 = {{hlist|Jack Gregg|Steve Swallow}} | title3 = Impromptu | length3 = 2:29 | writer3 = {{hlist|Gary Burton|Swallow}} | title4 = Sweeping Up | length4 = 5:24 }}
==Personnel== *Gary Burton – vibraharp, organ, marimba *Steve Swallow – bass, acoustic piano, electric piano
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Category:1975 collaborative albums Category:Gary Burton albums Category:Steve Swallow albums Category:Instrumental duet albums Category:ECM Records albums Category:Albums produced by Manfred Eicher